State bureau of investigation
A state bureau of investigation (SBI) is a state-level detective agency in the United States. They are plainclothes agencies which usually investigate both criminal and civil cases involving the state and/or multiple jurisdictions. They also typically provide technical support to local agencies in the form of laboratory and/or record services, or to directly assist in the investigation of cases at the local agency's request.
An SBI is a state's equivalent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but can include investigative jurisdiction similar to other federal law enforcement agencies as well. The SBIs investigate all manner of cases assigned to them by their state's laws and usually report to their state's attorney general, or in some cases, directly to their state's governor.
SBIs can also exist either independently or within a state Department of Public Safety/Department of Justice (which is an umbrella agency coordinating and/or controlling the various state-level law enforcement agencies) or a state police force (which is a general law enforcement agency).
Specific state forces[]
- Alabama
- Alabama Bureau of Investigation
- Alabama Highway Patrol
- Alaska
- (ABI)
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- California Department of Justice (CA DOJ) – Special Agents assigned to various investigative bureaus:
- California Highway Patrol – Freeway traffic investigations
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Hawaii Attorney General's Office – Criminal Investigations Division
- Hawaii Department of Public Safety – Hawaii Sheriff's Office
- Idaho State Police – Investigation Division
- Illinois State Police – Illinois Bureau of Investigation (merged into the State Police Operations Division in the 1970s) (SPI)
- Indiana State Police – (SBI)
- Iowa
- Iowa Department of Public Safety
- Division of Criminal Investigation
- Iowa Department of Public Safety
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Maryland State Police Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB)
- Massachusetts State Police — State Police Detective Units[1]
- Michigan
- Michigan State Police
- SBI
- SBI
- Minnesota
- Mississippi Bureau of Investigation [3] (SBI)
- Missouri Department of Public Safety
- Montana Department of Justice – Division of Criminal Investigations
- Nebraska State Patrol – Investigative Services
- Nevada Investigation Division
- New Hampshire Department of Safety – Division of State Police – Investigative Services Bureau
- New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice
- New Jersey State Detectives
- New Mexico State Police – Special Investigations Division
- New York
- New York State Police – Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI).
- North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation
- North Dakota Office of the Attorney General – (Attorney General's website)
- Ohio Attorney General – Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (SBI)
- Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation an independent agency
- Oregon Department of Justice – Criminal Justice Division
- Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General – Bureau of Criminal Investigations
- Pennsylvania State Police – Bureau of Criminal Investigation
- Puerto Rico
- Rhode Island State Police – Detective Bureau
- South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) – an independent agency
- Tennessee Bureau of Investigation – an independent agency (SBI)
- Texas
- Texas Department of Public Safety –
- Texas Rangers
- Criminal Investigations Division
- Texas Attorney General's Office – Criminal Investigations Division
- Texas Department of Public Safety –
- Utah Department of Public Safety – State Bureau of Investigation
- Vermont State Police – Bureau of Criminal Investigations
- Virginia State Police – Bureau of Criminal Investigation
- Washington State Patrol – Criminal Investigations Division
- West Virginia State Police – Bureau of Criminal Investigations
- Wisconsin Department of Justice – Division of Criminal Investigation (SBI)
See also[]
- Law enforcement in the United States
- State (United States)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Department of public safety
- Landeskriminalamt – German states
- Civil Police (Brazil) – Brazilian state detective agencies
References[]
- State Bureaus of Investigation